Deuteronomy 4:17
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
Deuteronomy 4:17 in other translations
| BSB | of any beast that is on the earth or bird that flies in the air, |
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| WEB | the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky, |
| ASV | the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flieth in the heavens, |
| YLT | a form of any beast which is in the earth--a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens-- |
| DARBY | the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven, |
| BBE | Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air, |
| Webster | The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, |
What does Deuteronomy 4:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 4:16-19
16-19. Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image--The things are here specified of which God prohibited any image or representation to be made for the purposes of worship; and, from the variety of details entered into, an idea may be formed of the extensive prevalence of idolatry in that age. In whatever way idolatry originated, whether from an intention to worship the true God through those things…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:1-23
The power and love of God to Israel are here made the ground and reason of a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although there is much reference to their national covenant, yet all may be applied to those who live under the gospel. What are laws made for but to be observed and obeyed? Our obedience as individuals cannot merit salvation; but it is the only evidence that we are partakers of the gift of God…
Deuteronomy 4:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 4:17
- Romans 1:23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ro 1:23
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain
Context
- Deuteronomy 4:16
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
- Deuteronomy 4:17
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
- Deuteronomy 4:18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy 4:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Figura de algún animal que sea en la tierra, figura de ave alguna alada que vuele por el aire, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | la figure de quelque bête qui soit sur la terre, la figure de quelque oiseau ailé qui vole dans les cieux, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | das Abbild irgend eines Tieres, das auf Erden ist, das Abbild irgend eines geflügelten Vogels, der am Himmel fliegt, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | similitudinem omnium jumentorum, quæ sunt super terram, vel avium sub cælo volantium, |